Word: waters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bill") Thompson and his cronies used to gather, eat fish, drink other things, discuss how to run Chicago, how to BOOST Chicago. They called it the Fish Fans' Club, because somebody caught a fish there once. Recently, the boat sprang a leak and squatted down in five feet of water. Also the club had $23,000 in debts which it was unable to meet, so it squatted down into defunction. Last week the furnishings of the club went under the hammer of Auctioneer Samuel L. Winternitz.* A picture of "Our Mayor in Action" brought an original bid of 10¢, finally...
Belgian peasants fearing what was going to happen, scuttled inland. Finally the Zeebrugge dykes yielded to the sea's inexorable blows. Ninety feet of stone wall crumbled and the sea shot inland. Similarly fell part of the dykes at Nieuport. The water covered fifty square miles of farming land. Hundreds of cattle were drowned...
Iodine in large doses is deadly, in small doses, beneficial. Milk contains a small percentage of iodine. When that percentage is lacking, human health sometimes suffers as a consequence. There are regions of the country in which the absence of iodine in salt, soil, water and milk explains the prevalence there of goitre. The country about Lake Michigan is one of these areas...
...rendered after arguments heard last spring. Three of these cases were notable-1) The Great Lakes States v. the City of Chicago. Lawyer Charles Evans Hughes, a onetime member of the Supreme Court, had been appointed special master. His report upheld Chicago's right to withdraw water from Lake Michigan, at the expense of other lake levels, for its sewage canal. 2) A test case about the Ku Klux Klan-whether it is constitutional for States to require secret organizations to put their secrets on file. 3) A test case about Shriners-whether persons founding fraternal orders may closely...
Prayers, by 50 passengers wearing life preservers, were offered from the third-class deck of the Roma during a storm so violent that the ship's propellers were lifted out of the water and spun around jarringly. The Roma weathered the storm, reached Manhattan safely...